SFHQ - West Launches HIV / AIDS Awareness Campaign

Troops of the Security Force Headquarters - West  (SFHQ-West) in collaboration with M/s John Keels Foundation  launched an awareness campaign on Wednesday (16) to educate troops on ‘HIV & AIDS’.

The awareness programme covered sub topics such as Introduction to HIV/ AIDS, How it transmits from infected patient to a healthy person, ‘Symptoms’, ‘Statistics of AIDS infected people’, ‘Social Impact and mental state of victims’ etc. It was organized on the directions of Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe, Commander SFHQ- West at the Signal Corps Regimental Centre auditorium.

Mr Ivan Perera, the Master Trainer on HIV / AIDS of John Keels Foundation, together with his team member conducted the awareness campaign.

355 participants including 40 officers and 315 other ranks participated in the event.